Fifth graders at Jackson Academy recently got a hands-on look at anatomy and biology through a classic science rite of passage: the frog dissection. Working carefully through each step, students ...

PETA has offered to donate money to a private school in Oneonta, California, to reduce the number of frog dissections performed in the school’s science classes. The animal-rights group said it will ...

Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous virtual ...

Biology class is getting a little more humane at one high school in Florida, where high school students have started dissecting realistic man-made frogs instead of the real animals. Nearly 100 ...

For this series, we've been thinking a lot about the iconic tools that some of us remember using — if only for a short time — in our early schooling. Things like the slide rule and protractor, the ...

If you were one of those folks who didn’t really like to cut into frogs in biology class, you can easily relate with this software: V-Frog, virtual-reality-based frog dissection software. V-Frog ...

Marin kids who are squeamish about slicing into frog cadavers or who hate the smell of chemical preservatives used in real-frog dissection in their science classes may find inspiration from Indigo ...

An Inland Empire high school is going virtual when it comes to dissecting frogs in biology class. An animal rights group is giving the school special software to do virtual dissection, instead of the ...

I recently read an essay called "Marin teen honored for alternatives to real-frog dissection" about Indigo Prasad, a seventh-grader at Mark Day School in San Rafael, California. I was thrilled to see ...